Dog With Tongue Out Running In A Park Coloring Page

A long coated dog runs across the foreground with its tongue hanging out and its tail streaming behind, one front leg extended and both back legs pushing off. The park behind it is fully drawn: a heavy trunked tree on the left, blossoming branches overhead, rounded shrubs, a path curving away, and thick grass along the bottom edge.

The coat is the detailed part, worked in short strokes that change direction over the shoulders and haunches. The park is broader and quicker to fill, so the page has two speeds in it.

Depth is easy to build here. Use your strongest, darkest tones on the grass in the foreground, keep the shrubs and the far side of the path pale, and the scene will open up behind the animal.

A dog runs with its mouth open because panting is its main way of shedding heat. Dogs sweat only through their paw pads, so the tongue does the work that skin does for us.